The ongoing weekend idiot report
Well more technically an onsight (which is different from a flash), is also different from a redpoint since a onsight means you sent it on your first attempt without beta, a flash is when you sent it your first attempt with beta, and an onisight means you sent it on your second or more try, and so I think the whole thing is hilarious, and this is a pretty big run-on sentence.
"It is difficult to estimate the potential damage of solvents; therefore the middle of the rope should never be marked with a felt-tip pen or similar. Although a danger might be improbable, it should never be ignored." Mammut
No, an onsight IS a flash. In fact, the term was originally "onsight flash". Both terms are also redpoints, since all a redpoint means is that you climbed from the bottom to the top without weighting the rope or gear, on lead, whether you flash it, onsight it, or do it on your 383723804 attempt (which for some people nowadays would be converted to 3rd redpoint attempt).Redpoint wrote:Well more technically an onsight (which is different from a flash), is also different from a redpoint since a onsight means you sent it on your first attempt without beta, a flash is when you sent it your first attempt with beta, and an onisight means you sent it on your second or more try, and so I think the whole thing is hilarious, and this is a pretty big run-on sentence.
"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."
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512OW wrote:
No, an onsight IS a flash. In fact, the term was originally "onsight flash". Both terms are also redpoints, since all a redpoint means is that you climbed from the bottom to the top without weighting the rope or gear, on lead, whether you flash it, onsight it, or do it on your 383723804 attempt (which for some people nowadays would be converted to 3rd redpoint attempt).
An onsight is NOT the same as a flash....
For example, Sean McColl flashed thanatopsis because he was coached/sprayed down on the route. Here's a video of him discussing flashing Thana and onsighting white mans....
http://petzlcrew.petzlteam.com/index.ph ... ean-McColl
More reference...
http://www.8a.nu/?IncPage=http%3A//www. ... eId%3D4007[/i]
all you haters die slow.
Flash - n. completion of a climb first try with no falls. 2. (vb.) to perform a flash.
Onsight - n/vb. a clean ascent with no falls, first try, with no prior knowledge of the route.
Redpoint - n/vb. a clean ascent with no falls, placing protection while climbing.
Pinkpoint - n.vb. A clean (no-falls) ascent of a route on lead with gear pre-placed. The climber need only clip the rope into the preplaced protection while climbing. Note: This term has disappeared from sport climbing terminology with all clean leads called redpoints.
Onsight - n/vb. a clean ascent with no falls, first try, with no prior knowledge of the route.
Redpoint - n/vb. a clean ascent with no falls, placing protection while climbing.
Pinkpoint - n.vb. A clean (no-falls) ascent of a route on lead with gear pre-placed. The climber need only clip the rope into the preplaced protection while climbing. Note: This term has disappeared from sport climbing terminology with all clean leads called redpoints.